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Tetradrachm - Gallienus Homonoia, Alexandria
| Issuer | Alexandria Mint, Roman Egypt |
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| Year | 266-267 |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Standing draped female figure of Homonoia facing left, wearing a modius on her head and holding a caduceus in her right hand, with a cornucopia cradled in her left arm. The figure is rendered in the typical Alexandrian provincial style with flowing robes. To the left of the central figure appears the regnal date L IΔ (Year 14 of Gallienus's reign), corresponding to 266–267 AD. A palm branch is visible to the right of the figure in the field. |
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By 266–267, the Alexandrian mint was operating under acute pressure — Gallienus had lost Britain, Gaul, and the East to breakaway regimes and was fighting on multiple fronts simultaneously. The Homonoia type, invoking harmony and concord, was a deliberate piece of political messaging directed at an empire visibly fracturing. Egypt remained loyal, and the mint leaned hard into loyalty iconography during precisely these years.
Billon by this date was billon in name only — silver content in Alexandrian tetradrachms had collapsed to single-digit percentages by the 260s.